Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Opportunity

This represents an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic research group at MIPS working on a Monash-CSIRO-joint funded project within the Probing Biosystems Future Science Platform. The successful applicant would be an important member of a multidisciplinary research team in a cutting edge area of cell-materials interaction research.

The successful candidate will perform original research and apply experimental techniques to perform a range of tasks. This project aims to develop an immunosensors device based on a porous silicon (pSi) nanoneedles for the detection of tumour recurrence. pSi nanoneedles display great potential as a facile, high-throughput, minimally invasive strategy for transdermal investigation due to their low-cost, versatility and ease of use. The system will be used as painless interface between the patient and a sensing device that enables the minimally invasive harvesting of interstitial fluids through the skin and the subsequent detection of cancer biomarkers by means of electrochemical sensing. Once developed, this nanoneedle platform could be readily integrated in conventional skin patch systems and in commercial wearable devices.